STRENGTH FOR EVERY MOMENT

If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever--the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you (John 14:15-18).

This Scripture indicates the Kingdom of God was going through some drastic changes.

1. We find the changing of the guard. "I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter" (John 14:16 KJV). Another in this passage means another one just like Jesus. He confirmed this in the very next verse: "Ye know Him [the Spirit of truth]; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you" (John 14:17 KJV).

2. We find an obligation on our part to receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "If ye love Me, keep My commandments" (John 14:15 KJV). As a result of our walking in obedience, Jesus said that He would pray to the Father. He in turn would send another Comforter to us.

3. Jesus said three things about the Holy Spirit in John 14:17:

• The world cannot receive Him.
• The world cannot see Him, because His ways are not their ways; He is a mystery to them.
• The world doesn't know Him.

     Why aren't more believers hearing from God? Many are not walking in obedience and do not have the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Jesus only reveals His secrets to those who are trustworthy and have intimate fellowship with Him.